As you may have noticed I took a year hiatus from blogging. I’ve been away for many reasons. My new role at work has me, at times, questioning if I’ll even make it through the day. I’m filling multiple roles, none of which are similar to one another, and cleaning up after people who seem …
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Showing: 1 - 7 of 7 ArticlesA Dad With Depression
I was going to use one of those stereotypical images of a guy in a dark room alone, image bathed in blue. Perhaps a lonely desert road with a car way in the distance. You know like the commercials for depression medication. Honestly though, that is not what it’s like when you are a father …
The Loss of A Legend And More Importantly A Father.
I wrote this last night. The night of the helicopter crash that took 9 lives to include the OCC’s Baseball coach, his wife and daughter. Kobe Bryant and his daughter, another mother and daughter, the girls basketball coach and the pilot. As I sit here putting my own children to sleep I can’t help but …
10 Things To Know Before Having Kids.
Let me start with I love being a dad. For how much of a struggle it is, it’s still one of the best experience I’ve ever had. With that said, it’s not easy nor did I expect it to be. There are things that have caught me off guard that would have been nice to …
Here We Go Again-Expecting Baby #3!
Yup, here’s we go again!!! We have been keeping the news hush for quite some time, about 11 weeks. With it being unexpected and with the past miscarriages we didn’t want to say anything too soon. Plus we were trying to wait for her parents to come out from Maine to announce to them in …
Going Back To Work As A New Father
I’m sitting here holding my son, who is snoozing, and realizing that it’s the last day off of paternity leave with my wife, daughter, and newborn son. I’ve always been a workaholic and usually, I would be excited to get back to designing, but not this time. It’s harder this time then when I had …
Welcome To Daddy To Bee
I mulled around the idea of doing a blog before my little girl was born. That was about 3 years ago. I soon realized that starting out as a new dad, I knew nothing and I had zero energy. Like I have energy now with a 3yr old tornado of running, jumping, climbing, all within …